In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty Read More »
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Ninety Degrees in the Shade (1965) Jirí Weiss, Anne Heywood, James Booth, Rudolf Hrusínský
In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. Read More »
The Neptune Factor (1973) Daniel Petrie, Ben Gazzara, Walter Pidgeon, Ernest Borgnine
Aboard the R/V Triton, the Project Neptune team is doing oceanographic research. Read More »
The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966) Michael A. Hoey, Jon Hall, Arthur C. Pierce, Mamie Van Doren, Anthony Eisley, Billy Gray
Operation Deep Freeze, a scientific expedition to Antarctica discovers Read More »
Closed Circuit AKA Circuito chiuso (1978) Giuliano Montaldo, Giovanni Di Benedetto, Umberto Gradi, Elisabetta Virgili
After a man is shot dead in his seat during a matinee showing of a Spaghetti Western Read More »
The Leather Boys (1964) Sidney J. Furie, Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton
Reggie and Dot are a young South London couple who get married before they really get to know each other. Read More »
The Snorkel (1958) Guy Green, Peter van Eyck, Betta St. John, Mandy Miller
Paul Decker murders his wife in her Italian villa by drugging her milk and asphyxiating her by gas. Read More »
Roger Dodger (2002) Dylan Kidd, Campbell Scott, Jesse Eisenberg, Isabella Rossellini
Set against the bright lights of Manhattan, a tale which takes a comic, urbane look Read More »
Gigi (1958) Vincente Minnelli, Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training Read More »
The Ambassador (1984) J. Lee Thompson, Robert Mitchum, Ellen Burstyn, Rock Hudson
Robert Mitchum plays a controversial U.S. ambassador to Israel who tries to solve the Palestinian Read More »
Foxy Brown (1974) Jack Hill, Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend. Read More »
A Silent Woman AKA Una Mujer Silenciosa (2002) Matías Piñeiro, José Manuel Espeche, Eugenia Palioff, Beatriz Spelzini
Matías Piñeiro’s first film, produced when he was a film student. Read More »
Audition AKA Ôdishon (1999) Takashi Miike, Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki
In Tokyo, Shigeharu Aoyama is a widower that grieves the loss of his wife Read More »
Beauty and the Beast AKA La belle et la bête (1946) Jean Cocteau, René Clément, Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parély
Adélaïde, Belle, Félicie and Ludovic are young adult siblings who once lived in grandeur Read More »
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt
Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925 Read More »